Download or read book Governing the Poor written by Suzan Ilcan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, we are barraged by statistics, images, and emotional messages that present poverty as a problem to be quantified, managed, and solved. Global generations present the poor as a heterogeneous group and stress globalized solutions to the problem of poverty. Governing the Poor exposes the ways in which such generalized descriptions and quantifications marginalize the poor and their experiences.